What If You Know Someone Without Joy?

Have you ever known someone for a long time and not noticed that they've never had joy?

Think about it. I am sure you do. Because we all know at least one person who's never once shown to have joy in recent years or decades...

But what if that person is a Christian...? Does that complicate things?

The Lord continues to teach me about this phrase:

The absence of something, tells you something.

I recently was hit with this:

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness

Galatians 5:22
https://www.bible.com/bible/111/GAL.5.22.NIV

The fruit of the spirit...

Joy...

One of the fruits of the spirit of The Lord in a person is... joy.

If that is one of the outcomes of having the fruit of the spirit... and you look back over the time you have known someone and there is no joy... what does that mean?

Perhaps you're married and while you've been happy and busy, you stop and realize there is only that and no joy.

Perhaps you've known a coworker or friend for decades and had great times. But there's never been joy dancing in their eyes.

I don't know that I have an answer to this. But it's something deep I am asking The Lord about.

If someone has walked for decades with The Lord and has no joy. What does that mean?